"Stairway to Heaven" Led Zeppelin as the best ballad

Led Zeppelin

Song of Led Zeppelin "Stairway to Heaven" was the best ballad by the readers of Rolling Stone.
Throughout the week the publication polled readers. As a result, has accumulated a number of options that the magazine decided to make than the traditional top ten, and a list of 12 items. Most often, readers have mentioned the song is Led Zeppelin. Eight-track "Stairway to Heaven" was a fourth studio album. This album without a title goes on sale in 1971.

"Stairway to Heaven" is often included in various lists of the best tracks. In particular, in 2004, the same Rolling Stone magazine included it in the list of "500 Greatest Songs of All Time." Then track Led Zeppelin took the 31-th place.

Full list of the best ballads, compiled in a survey of readers of Rolling Stone, looks like this:

Led Zeppelin - "Stairway to Heaven"
George Harrison - "Something"
The Rolling Stones - "Wild Horses"
 Guns N 'Roses - "November Rain"
The Beatles - "Let It Be"
Prince - "Purple Rain"
Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here"
Marvin Gaye - "Let's Get It On"
Pearl Jam - "Black"
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Freebird"
The Beatles - "Hey Jude"
U2 - "With Or Without You"

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The best album covers named

Dark Side of the Moon

Internet publication about music Music Radar has published a list of the best album covers of all time. Rating, which fell 50 records have been compiled on the basis of the corresponding online voting on the website of the magazine.
First place in the survey ranked the album cover Pink Floyd "Dark Side Of The Moon" in 1973 edition. In the design of the plate was used by Pink Floyd clear demonstration of the phenomenon of dispersion - the expansion of light in the spectrum as it passes through a prism.

The second place ranking was the cover drive Nirvana "Nevermind" featuring a baby, floating the dollar. The third position in the list of albums with the best design went to record The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" , where you can see the band members surrounded by cardboard figures of various cultural, entertainment and sports.

Top ten list of best album covers of all time is as follows:

"Dark Side Of The Moon" (1973) - Pink Floyd
"Nevermind" (1991) - Nirvana
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967) - The Beatles
"London Calling" (1979) - The Clash
"Rage Against The Machine" (1992) - Rage Against The Machine
"The Number Of The Beast" (1982) - Iron Maiden
"The Beatles" ("White Album", 1968) - The Beatles
"Unknown Pleasures" (1979) - Joy Division
"In The Court Of The Crimson King" (1969) - King Crimson
"Animals" (1977) - Pink Floyd
The top 50 best covers of mostly featured registration plates issued in 60-70-XX century. The ranking includes only a few albums, which was released after the year 2000. Among them, in particular, were: "Is This It" (2001) The Strokes, which got 42 of the position, "Mirrored" Battles (2007), located at 18 th place, as well as "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" (2010) Kanye West got on the 34 th line. For a complete list of the best covers available here .

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